Islamist hackers target Aust websites

An Islamist hacker group has brought down the website of Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas and a number of religious schools across Australia in a campaign that urges authorities to "stop killing people in Syria".

The Victorian branch of the ALP has confirmed it is moving to a more secure hosting system after months of disruptive hacking.

Mr Pallas's Labor Party website was hacked on Wednesday by a group calling itself the Tunisian Fallaga Team.

Under the hashtags Op_Russia and save_aleppo, the hacked site showed photographs of people suffering apparently in Syria.

Also embedded was a YouTube video containing footage of armed men and women.

The page said the United Nations had reported that Syrian government troops and allied Iraqi militia had deliberately shot dead men, women and children in eastern Aleppo.

Mr Pallas's website displayed the Islamist content briefly before it was replaced with a message stating the official site was "briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance".